Understanding The "yum.conf " and How Does It Like
So, what's a "yum.conf" can do? yum.conf is where you can meet your specific needs and support your own local repositories. This is the route that will almost certainly be taken by most systems administrators who build their own repository. To do this, start by reading the yum.conf man pages that should have come with your distribution. Look over the default /etc/yum.conf that was installed by the RPM. Finally, browse through the additional examples below. Chances are pretty good that one of these will resources will provide a template that is adequate to get you started, and once you get things running at all a bit of experimentation will soon make you an expert. So let's look at a yum.conf file that is fairly minimal - just enough to get you started: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log [fedora-core] name = Fedora Core baseurl=http://www.myserver.org/fedora/ gpgcheck=1 Systems persons who are building a fedora mirror as...